It's rare for a remake to improve on a previous Oscar winner, but Anthony Mann's 1960 staging of the Edna Ferber bestseller easily trumps the 1931 Best Picture winner for physical excitement and big-budget production values, earning Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Sound. Opening with the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, this epic frontier saga chronicles the formation of Oklahoma from the former Cimarron Territory, an unsettled "no man's land" occupied by Cherokee and Sioux. Glenn Ford stars as the idealistic, footloose husband of Maria Schell, a pragmatic woman who craves stability. Anne Baxter costars as the inevitable "other woman" Dixie Lee.